Matthew Clarke wrote: > Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:32:32PM -0700, Ralph Alvy may have written: > >> I'm getting the following error when running dosemu 1.2.2 under a newly >> installed Kubuntu 6.10: >> >> ./xdosemu: 86: Syntax error: Bad substitution >> >> What might be going on here? > > That's an error message from your shell. It doesn't like something about > line 86 of the "xdosemu" shell script. What does that line of that script > look like (I don't have a dosemu I can look at right now)? > > To get more information, you could turn on the shell's tracing mode; for > Bourne shells, you can change: > > #! /bin/sh > > to > > #! /bin/sh -x > > or add a "set -x" command into the script. > > Matt. 84 -install) 85 INSTALL=1 86 if [ -n "$2" -a "${2:0:1}" != "-" ]; then 87 PROPRIETARY=$2 This is the only distro I've seen this happen, and I use dosemu 1.2.2 under Slackware 11, Arch Current, Debian Testing, Mepis 6, and Fedora Core 5. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html